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RIFLE Team Captain Lindsey Hill (Photo courtesy of uabsports.com)This Saturday, the UAB Rifle Team will compete in their final match after 20 years at UAB. When the announcement was made that the UAB football, bowling and rifle teams were being eliminated following the 2014-2015 season, the ladies on the rifle team were devastated but had already prepared themselves for the worst. Read more...

Omari Jazz (photo by Brandon Varner). In this second installment of the series, I sat down with Omari Jazz of Step Pepper Records to discuss his experiences.

Kscope: When did you fall in love with music?

Omari Jazz (OJ): My dad would always tell me that when I was in my mom's belly, they'd put me up to speakers at concerts, which is probably why I can't hear today. I was really into the drums in the beginning. My dad was a musician, so I would be in the back of clubs like CBGB's as a kid taking naps and things like that. I really sort of didn't know anything different.
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Couple stands outside Jefferson Courthouse (Photo by Casey Marley). It has been more than three weeks now since same-sex couples have had the freedom to marry in Alabama, following the Supreme Court's refusal to extend the stay of a federal judge's ruling overturning the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

However, in the week following the lift a majority of Alabama counties refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples, complying with an order by Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for probate judges to disregard the federal ruling.Read more...

#WinterWonderham was only a couple of inches, but students still enjoyed the break (Photo courtesy of William Rushton).Feb. 24: students checked their phones after hearing the buzzing notifications from UAB's emergency alert system, B-Alert. The phone calls, text messages and emails notified students that classes and campus operations would be shut down due to Winter Storm Remus predictions, sitting a potential for "snow accumulations and potentially hazardous travel conditions" from the National Weather Service.Read more...